A/N: This is going to be in Edward's point of view and I'm going to change it up a little bit, someone informed me that Vampires can not get knocked out, so I'm going to change that a little. Thanks again for reading. I love you all so much.
The warm taste of animal's blood poured down from my mouth into my belly. It satisfied me, but not for very long. I was a good vampire and I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be human again, but that would never be possible. I would have to endure this for the rest of my day's, however long that was going to be.
This helped tame my thirst for about a week maybe more, but there was always this kind of nagging feeling in the back of my mind that wanted me to jump a human and drink their blood just because it satisfied me and made me feel a lot stronger.I was just about finished with what I was doing when something caught my scent. It was something that I have never smelled before. It wasn't a something, it was a someone. I could feel them right behind me, I knew they weren't going to make any sudden movements, but they were waiting for the opportune moment.
I tried to pretend that I didn't notice this creature, I was also waiting and listening, I wasn't focusing on the dead animal body in front of me, all my scents were heightened at this point.
It moved quickly behind a tree, I wasn't sure what it was. I waited a little bit and listened once more and there was a little bit of a footstep and this was my chance to attack. I landed on her. It was a female, I was about to get up and apologize when I remembered that this female had no heart beat and she was deathly pale.
"Get off me!!," She cried.
Her eyes were crystal red and I kept her down on the ground easily, but not when there was a sudden kick to my gut and I loosened my grip on her and she got away, but it didn't take me long to catch her once more and stall her a little by throwing her up against a tree and stopping her for a moment causing a thud. As soon as she was back on her feet we were both ready for a fight.
"What are you doing on our land?" I asked her the first question that came to my mind.
I didn't think that she was going to cope with me, but she spoke her name and that was all "My name is Isabella and I think that is all you need to know," Stuck up little vampire. I examined her carefully. She didn't seem like she was that old, nor did she seem that young. She looked about 90 to 100 years old, that wasn't very old for a vampire. There was something bout her though that made her different from other vampires.
I growled with anger. I wasn't in the mood for this now. "State your purpose," I asked her stepping closer.
"I don't feel that I should tell you that," She was moving a little bit to, she was a smart one, I would give her that.
"Fine if you are going to act that way, then I'm just going to have to take you to my father with force, and there is nothing that's going to stop me from doing so, I don't like you because you are stuck up and don't care about anyone but yourself," Yes she was a girl and yes I had just said that to her, but at the time being I didn't care because she was being rude to me and not giving me the answers that I asked from her so nicely.
"You could try," Her thick plump lips turned up into a smile. It was like she knew that I wasn't going to be able to do it.
The next moment she was thrashing against my shoulder and demanding that I put her down. I wouldn't do so. I kept a strong grip on her.
"If you don't put me down this instant, I'm going to call for my friends and they will take care of you," That bothered me a little bit because I didn't know what her friends were like, so that only made me cover her mouth and run faster. Isabella didn't like that and she bit my hand multiple times. It did no good.
I got back to my house and put her down on the couch and locking her in my home.
In that time, the rest of my family had pilled in the living room and were concerned about who I had brought home.
"Who is this Edward? Is she your new girlfriend? Emmett snickered and both Isabella and I threw him a hiss and a death glance. He put up his hands in defense and just chuckled away. "Okay, if you two want to be this way," Emmett turned around to his wife and wrapped an arm around her.
"Emmett do you know who this is?" Alice my sister that I was closest to. I loved her to death. She spoke up. "This is Isabella Swan, the newest edition to the Volturri guard," Alice seemed absolutely thrilled about this. My face dropped when I took a good look at her and remembered Alice mentioning something about her many years back. Years to me felt like months. The Volturri, sent shivers up my spine. I didn't like them, nor did I trust them.
"Why do you seem so thrilled and easy going about this," I knew them and they weren't always kind, I didn't know much about this one though.
I concentrated my thoughts and realized that I heard nothing. Not any kind of thought at all, that was rather odd. Normally I could hear everyone's thoughts, but not her. It felt like she had a shield up around herself that was preventing me from hearing her thoughts. This was something that I have never seen before.
"There's nothing wrong Edward, it's because they aren't here to bother us or threaten us with anything, they are only here because they were sent to check up on us, we are something new to them and they want more information about us," My little sister explained to me and the rest of the family.
"Can I please go now," Isabella stood up. I could tell that she didn't feel very comfortable being her around all these other vampires that she was not familiar with.
"I don't think so, I don't trust her, she's going to go tell her friends and then we are going to be ambushed," I warned my family. They were the closest things to me that kept me sane and kept me from harming the whole human race, I didn't want to lose them to the Volturri.
"Edward please calm down, it's nothing serious I promise you, I am the one who can see things remember," Alice placed a marble hand on my shoulder to calm me. Jasper, her husband or mate if that's what you wanted to call them, he stepped closer to me and I felt my mood drastically change. I cringed and stepped away from the door.
"I know this is hard for you Edward, but you must trust your sister like the rest of us are, I know that's kind of hard for you to do because of what they are, but Alice seems pretty confident about all this," Esme spoke to me and I relaxed a little bit. Her and her motherly charms.
I looked towards my father, Carlisle he stood still, maybe even a little tense himself, but he slowly nodded his head feeling that they weren't going to be a threat to us.
I sighed and closed my eyes.
"Fine, leave if you must, but know this," I looked at her with hatred. Even if my family trusted her, I wasn't going to give in that easily. "We live here as a family and we do things a little differently than you do, we do not hunt the humans, we drink animal's blood, so if you are thinking of getting something to calm your cravings, I suggest that you take you and the other two members of your guard else where," I wanted to tell her a lot more nasty things, but not while my family was in the room, they wouldn't want me to be rude.
She smiled smugly when I said this. "That's very interesting, well, we won't be hunting for a while, we have just had our share of human blood not to long ago, besides it's not like we will be here for very long," She turned to the door and I wanted to launch myself at her and tackle her to the ground, Esme's hand held me firmly to the floor where I stood. I knew that Jasper could feel what I was feeling now and he was trying to repress those feelings.
"Please don't worry yourself to much son, If things start to turn bad, Alice will inform us immediately," Carlisle spoke with a soft tone. They all seemed so cool about this. I was reading their thoughts and they didn't even seemed the least bit worried.
I wasn't going to be like that. I was going to be on my toes at all times.
My room was where I was headed next and I stayed there for a few hours until something struck me. I wanted to hunt down Isabella for myself. I wanted to do things to her that she would never forgot. Not sexual, I wanted to ruin her life, just because she had stepped into mine.
I jumped from my window down onto the forest floor. Didn't hurt me at all and I was rather thankful for that. I knew her scent, so I knew what I was looking for. I ran through the woods until I hit this house. It was old and run down, didn't look like it had been in use in over 20 years. Isabella's scent was all over it, this must have been some place special to her, maybe this used to be her home once because it seemed that she had roamed all through the house. She wasn't there now because I could still smell her scent ahead. It was getting stronger and stronger. I was getting closer.
I came up with another plan. I was going to bug her to death and drive her nuts.
"Going home I suspect?" I asked her but moved to quickly for her to see me when she turned around. She looked everywhere for me, but I kept moving and I could see on her face that she wasn't liking my little game. "You seem distraught, is it because you can't see me," I felt my face turn up in a smile. I was aggravating her.
"Come out before I call my friends on you," I stopped and she was looking directly at me. That startled me for a moment, but that's just what she was looking for, she wanted me to be scared and tense because of the other two people that had tagged along with her.
"How are you going to do that, use a cell phone?" I asked her. I was pretty sure she knew what a cell phone was.
"Get out of my way," She tried to move past me. I knew this was going to be difficult, but I wanted to know as much about her as possible, she was just as new as I was to her.
I grabbed hold of her arm and pulled her back. She struggled to break free of my grasp, but I wasn't going to allow her to get away this time.
"Listen to this one thing, I know we don't know that much about one another, but I will figure you out, I'll be looking for you and watching your every move Isabella. You do not frighten me," my stare went from serious to slightly angered. I didn't want her to think that this mission was going to be a breeze because she knew that everyone was afraid of the Volturri.
I left out of thin air, not giving her time to say anything more, I didn't want to hear anymore. I headed back home and jumped in through my window. I was going to catch up on some of my reading, even though that's normally the only thing that I did in my free time, it was something that helped me cool down and put my mind at peace. I picked up a random book and started reading it, but it didn't satisfy my mind, I could only think of Isabella and what she was thinking right now, that's something that was really bothering me, I had no idea what she was thinking, it was the oddest thing that I have ever experienced. I wanted to know what she was thinking 24/7, that would make things a lot less complicated.
Bella's Point of View
I was grumbling in my mind on my way back to the cabin, I couldn't get that insolence Edward out of my mind. Who did he think he was, threatening a Volturri guard, was he nuts. That was probably right, but there seemed to be something bothering him as well, like there was something on my mind. I could see it in his eyes when he grabbed me with his hand, there was something that he kept thinking about, something about me.
I would report to Alec and Jane that I had found the Cullen residency and that I would be checking up on them every now and then, I was most interested in Edward, he was the one who I would be studying most. He was the one with the most courage out of the family.
"Bella, what's the news?' Jane asked as I stepped into the cabin doors. They were sitting at the table, but as soon as I entered the room, they both stood up with their chairs slid back.
"I have found the Cullen's and they are very interesting I will tell you that, I also believe that a few of them may have some special talents, so that's something to look into," I spoke as I took as seat at the dinning room table.
I thought in silence. I was thinking what could be my next plan on finding Edward and watching him without him knowing. He was a cleaver one I would give him that.
"Where are they located?" Alec asked taking a seat at the end of the table folding his hands and listening to me with wide eyes.
"They are a few miles across the river, it's not hard to find, they live in a large house and everything, they are very different from us, it also seems that they don't drink humans blood, they only drink the blood of animals, it's like they don't want to be vampire's," I explained and they listened without cutting into what I was saying. "There are seven of them, it's one of the largest coven's I've seen in a long time, they don't seem that dangerous though, but I would like to keep an eye on one of them in particular," I thought back to Edward. He was mine. I didn't want anyone else getting information from him.
"Which one is it?" Jane pressed on wanting to know what had struck my curiosity.
"He's the one with bronze hair and he's tall and a lean body, very serious all the time and he's the only one without a mate, it's a shame really, but he seems like the kind that doesn't want to commit, he just wants to fly solo," I smiled internally at this. He was a stuck up stubborn loser, kind of like me. Jane was silent for a moment she was going through some thinking.
"That's interesting that he's the only one without a mate, he must be the different one of the family, well Bella," Jane flashed a little smile at me. "I'm going to trust that you can deal with this one, It might be something new for you, but I'm sure you can handle it, your a big girl now. Right, you are Aro's little girl," I ground my teeth together at this. Everyone knew that I was very close to Aro and that he treated me differently than everyone else did.
Jane walked past me and Alec smiled and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"We trust you Bella, I know that you aren't going to screw up on this, what you've been with us for about 90 years or so, and you've been on enough missions already," I smiled at Alec and was glad that he understood me a lot better than Jane did.
I went into my bedroom, or the one room that I was assigned to in this cabin and pulled a book from the self. To me it really didn't matter what it was, as long as it gave me some information or entertainment.
It was funny, the one book that I picked up was the one that used to be my favorite when I was living with my mother and father here. It was Romeo and Juliet, I had other favorites, but this one was good because it was so dramatic and I loved, love stories.
I read all night long and listen to soft music playing in the back round.
Alec and Jane were probably working together on the mission, they weren't like me they didn't really like to read or listen to music, maybe that was the reason that Aro cherished me so much, because I was so much different than everyone else, I was more modern.
"Come on Bella, put your book down, it's time to start another day, Alec and I are going to get a run down of the area and find somewhere to hunt, since you did say that they drank animal's blood here, we don't want to be going around and causing an epidemic," She flashed a cocky grin in my direction. Jane bothered me sometimes, she was so full of herself and she was always working to the top trying to be the best.
I closed my book and lay there on the floor. I knew what I was going to be doing today. I was going to be observing Edward Cullen's actions. I needed to be as inconspicuous as possible. I knew Edward was going to be doing exactly the same things as I was going to be doing, but I needed to be better than him. He had one blind spot and that was not being able to read my mind, so that would give him less of a chance of watching me. I didn't think I had any flaws except for the fact that I wasn't very familiar with the area. He was and he knew where he was going.
We were both about equal because he didn't have his mind reading and I didn't have the mapping skills and we could both smell one another. I knew that he was the best smelling thing in these woods aside from humans. I didn't want to run into any of those while I was here getting information, they would only bring me down
I was heading through the woods and I knew the first place to look was going to be around his house, that's probably where he was going to start looking because he knew that I was looking for him.
I ran all through the woods and wasn't able to get a scent or anything. It was possible that he could be in the house, but I highly doubted that, I could tell that the house was empty. I kept running and there was still no trace of him or his family. They probably went to some other area for hunting.
I was just about to give up, when I came upon something. Something that I had missed before. It was kind of magical in a way, a way that I couldn't describe. I slowed my pace as curiosity came into play.
It was a meadow, a fine one to be exact. It was the perfect place for one to. It was somewhere, where you would never think to look. In the middle of this woods that was so mythical.
There were little flowers growing throughout this meadow and the grass was a shade of darker green than anywhere else. It was perfect, somewhere where I would like to spend my time reading or just being alone.
"It's nice isn't it," He caught me off guard. There again I heard his voice, but I did not see him. I followed my scents and I still couldn't spot his location. "I knew you wouldn't be able to find me today," He hoped down from the tree. It seemed like he was at the very top. He was skilled I would give him that.
"Hum, nice way to trick someone, hide in the trees," I smirked. "What is this place anyways?" I asked being nice only because we were both being kind of playful at the moment.
"Well this is called a meadow and the reason that it's so different is because it's right in the middle of the woods and that's rather uncommon, I come here when I want time away from the rest of my family so I can think by myself without hearing everyone else, there normally aren't people around this area for miles," Edward walked into the meadow it's self getting a few feat closer to me. I watched him carefully making sure that he wasn't going to pull anything tricky right now.
"Why so tense Isabella?" He noticed as I stood there in the middle of the green grass watching his every move with stiff bones. He was enjoying me being in this kind of state, he actually looked rather relaxed.
"Don't come to close to me Cullen, I don't think you would want to see what I can actually do," I threatened him trying to seem scary, but actually right now I felt kind of inferior to him because he was so calm and cool.
He actually laughed at me. He laughed at what I said, I was trying to be scary and it wasn't really working.
"You know the funny thing is Isabella, that your not that scary," A few more steps and I would kill him. "Your way to cute to be scary," I was pretty sure that he was going to flee after saying something like that, but he didn't. He just kept that same smile with his hands stuffed in his pockets.
I gnawed at my bottom lip. I would not just stand here and be called cute. I was a Volturri guard for goodness sakes.
I ran towards him and he quickly moved out of the way without using any effort. How could he be so fast and so cool about everything at the same time.
I tried to catch him, but to no avail.
"Having some trouble Isabella? He asked as he ended up leaning on a tree on the other end of the meadow. I launched myself at him, but nothing.
I stopped in the middle. He was still smiling at me. I didn't like it. "Aw you tired, or just not fast enough to catch me?" He stood there, but our eyes didn't separate. "Where are these friends of yours, I thought they would be with you to keep you safe, since you are a young vampire, I can tell by your speed, your rather slow," He was teasing me, making fun of me. Trying to catch him wasn't going to solve anything. I was just going to have to play his little game. I could even benefit from it to.
"Okay Edward," I emphasized his name a little bit. "I'll make you a deal, if I catch you, you have to sit down with me and tell me about yourself so it will make my job a little easier," I paused while he stepped into the conversation.
"And if you don't catch me, what do I get in return?" He was going to be looking forward to this I could tell. I thought for a moment, we couldn't just get up and leave, Aro wouldn't be to happy about that.
"Well, what do you want?" I asked him.
Edward was coming towards me now. In one quick movement he was pinning me to a tree, which caught me off guard. "How about you being a little nicer and doing whatever I want you to while you are here for the next couple of months," His sweet breath danced across my face. It wasn't bad at all, it was rather sweet and somewhat appealing.
I ground my pearly white teeth together and thought for a moment. "Fine, it's a deal, but just know that the bet starts now," He was gone before I got a chance to finish the sentence.
I growled internally and I could swear I heard him laughing somewhere in the distance.
A/N: Sorry I've been really busy lately and I've been trying to write this as fast as possible, but there's just no time in a day anymore. Please review and I'll be a happy camper. Thanks again to everyone who has already reviewed, I'm very thankful and glad that you like the story so far. And thanks to those who gave me a few idea's they really helped! I'll update as soon as possible I promise